THIS DAY IN HISTORY WITH TARA ROSS

TaraRoss.com ^ | August 6, 2016 | Tara Ross

[knarf]

“The time has come,” these Allies declared, “for Japan to decide whether she will continue to be controlled by those self-willed militaristic advisers whose unintelligent calculations have brought the Empire of Japan to the threshold of annihilation, or whether she will follow the path of reason.”

[jmacusa]

God bless the bombing of the bombs. It meant for my late father-in-law and several of my late uncles and millions of other guys serving in the Pacific that they were going to see their next birthday.

[knarf]

Japan had been cruel warriors, violating decent rules of engagement ..

decent ?

Oh well .... They were sick bastards ... and the world had gotten tired of them.

They were given an opportunity and they refused.

WHEN will we get THAT sick and tired of the muzzies ?

[disndat]

They have such a long history of getting along with each other they will probably get the bomb rolling against each other.

As a side note it is probably a ‘good’ thing I don’t have access to nuclear weapons.

[knarf]

Tara posts on my FB page and one of her commenters said; ....

"My father-in-law was ordered to surrender to the Japanese while serving in the US Army in the Philippines. He spent almost 4 years of his life as POW. His treatment as well as numerous other prisoners was horrible and inhumane. He spent his remaining years on this earth reliving what his captors did to him. The Japanese people were given notice of what was to come and they choose their path. Our Service men and women were never given a chance. I know the survivors of these two bombs suffered as well as their children and children's children but they choose that path."

[jmacusa]

“When will we get THAT sick and tired of the muzzies?’’< Soon I hope but I don't hold out much hope. We're not really fighting people so much as an ideology. Today one them can be an ISIS fighter and tomorrow he ditches the weapon and goes back to driving a cab. As to the Japs, I'm sick and tired of their playing victim all the time especially every August 6 and 9th. The bastards refuse to accept the fact they started the damn war and refuse any attempts at reparations to their millions of victims, particularly those Allied veterans who were their prisoners and other Asians. They all want the world to get weepy every August 6th. but they never get weepy every December 7th.

[henkster]

Yes, but they make such bloody good cameras.

[MCF]

My uncle surrendered there too. Died in1944 and is still buried there.

[knarf]

I wouldn't place all that pressure on Japan.

They (as ALL nations do) have a media corps and traitorous (to THEIR nation) element working just as WE do here in the USA.

Are all Americans racist?

According to the media structure we are, and if that's all other nations see ... then that's their take on us.

[jmacusa]

You’re engaging in moral equivocation. Germany has paid reparations to it’s victims and still continues to do so. Successive Japanese governments have never done so. This isn’t a question of racism although the Japanese did engage in racial genocide in WW2. This is about a nation accepting it’s responsibility in being an aggressor in a war it deliberately provoked , owning up the the horrible atrocities it committed and making restitution, beyond verbal apologies, to it’s victims.

[chajin]

I spent the bulk of this morning re-reading the last month of Homer Simpson’s WWII NYTs, along with the comments. Anyone wanting to understand the stances of all sides in the war with Japan could do much worse than go through these, as you well know.

[Shady]

I wouldn’t be here had it not been for these two peacemakers.

[Vigilanteman]

Two huge differences:

1. The Germans elected Hitler and enthusiastically supported him. The Japanese military took over in a coup.
   
2. The Germans continue to support importation of the closest thing the world has today to the supremacist nazi idealogy of the 1930s and 1940s, namely Islamist supremicists. Japan has only two mosques in the entire country and imports only the most moderate of Muslims in very limited numbers.

[BatGuano]

When WE wake up to the fact that their criminal behavior is masked by pretending to be a religion and then, do something about it.

It might just take a lot of bombs to wake THEM up.

Nukes eventually got the Japanese’s attention.

[jmacusa]

What does any of that have to do with Japan admitting it’s war guilt?

[jmacusa]

Neither would my wife. My late father-in-law was recouping a leg wound he suffered on Iwo Jima.

[henkster]

Sigh. I really miss those daily posts. One of the most satisfying intellectual endeavors of my life.

[Shady]

My Wife was from John Bradley’s hometown, I have stood at his grave. It is incredible what those Heros went through, including your Dad.

[nutmeg]

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[Vigilanteman]

You mean beyond the obvious response that today’s government is legitimately elected and cannot apologize for a rogue government which seized power legitimately?